Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Zombie

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

Richard Ayoade

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

Russell Johnson

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

Russell Crowe

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

Romola Garai

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

Truman Capote

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

Trace Adkins

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

William Wyler

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Robert Culp

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Schwentke

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Sanjay Dutt

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Samuel Fuller

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Goldwyn

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Ryan Reynolds

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

Zach Braff

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Dan Gilroy

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.

Bruno Tonioli

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Russell Crowe

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.